Jimmy Darmody - Michael Pitt, Boardwalk Empire

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One of the few fictional gangsters on Boardwalk Empire is also one of the best. Michael Pitt’s Jimmy Darmody isn’t someone who was born to be a gangster. In fact, for most of his life, he was a straitlaced kid who planned on going to college and having a normal life. But he got sucked into the war and came back with a rather different attitude about things.

Initially working as an assistant to Atlantic City’s kingpin Nucky Thompson (more on him later), Jimmy made the decision to set out on his own and quickly established himself as a power player in the bootlegging game who was more than capable of getting his hands dirty when violence became a necessity. As Pitt plays him, the character can be frighteningly cold about violence and a little too ambitious for his own good. He’s a fascinatingly intelligent and vicious rising force on the '30s crime scene as frighteningly real as any of the historical gangsters who surround him.